Period English Biography

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    • A Social History
    • By: Elizabeth Norton
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 689 ratings
    • The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress, of palace intrigue and dramatic politics....

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    • The Wonder of the Age
    • By: John Rhodehamel
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • Rhodehamel examines George Washington as a public figure, arguing that the man - who first achieved fame in his early twenties - is inextricably bound to his mythic status....

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    • George Washington
    • By: Joseph J. Ellis
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 965 ratings
    • From the French and Indian War to Mount Vernon, from the American Revolution to the presidency, Ellis delivers what will stand as the definitive biography of the greatest American icon....

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 849 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • By: Benjamin Franklin
    • Narrated by: Robin Field
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • "Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy," advises Benjamin Franklin, and he was a man who lived up to his own words....

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    • Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth
    • By: Jonathan Mack
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Sometime between 1610 and 1611, William Shakespeare wrote The Tempest. The idea for the play came from the real-life shipwreck in 1609 of the Sea Venture, which was caught in a hurricane and grounded on the coast of Bermuda....

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    • Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience
    • By: Martyn Whittock
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the "saints" (members of the Separatist Puritan congregations) and "strangers" (economic migrants) on the original ship....

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    • By: John Ferling
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • John Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. This masterful book is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times....

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    • The Life of Mary Washington
    • By: Martha Saxton
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, based on archival sources. Her son's biographers have, for the most part, painted her as self-centered and crude, a trial to her oldest child. But the records tell a very different story....

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    • Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
    • By: Henry Wiencek
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes....

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    • How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution
    • By: John Oller
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,185 ratings
    • In the darkest days of the American Revolution, Francis Marion and his band of militia freedom fighters kept hope alive for the patriot cause during the critical British southern campaign....

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    • The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
    • By: Andres Resendez
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,512 ratings
    • In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....

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    • The Man Who Rebuilt Jerusalem
    • By: S.R. Buckel
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Jerusalem lies in ruins. Her citizens are taxed, used, and oppressed in every way, by local and foreign rulers. Her altars are neglected, her ...

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Christopher Wixson
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time....

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    • By: Benjamin Franklin
    • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,752 ratings
    • Left unfinished at the time of his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has endured as one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written....

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    • America's Most Notorious Pirate
    • By: Angus Konstam
    • Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • Of all the colorful cutthroats who scoured the seas in search of plunder during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 18th century, none was more ferocious or notorious than Blackbeard....

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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 29 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,212 ratings
    • In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams....

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    • By: Richard Zacks
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 955 ratings
    • Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer....

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